Mapping Injury

The project is interdisciplinary in its conceptualisation and methodology, tracing injury as it is articulated and experienced by populations, how such experiences impact on expressions of political agency and mechanisms of response at local, national, regional, and international levels. The project uses a combination of ethnographic, archival, documentary/textual, and visual methods in offering an analytic and a theorisation that captures the embodied, sociocultural, political and material manifestations of injury and its impact.

Visual methods are a core component of the project and will incorporate material from each of our research sites, including newly commissioned artworks. A project exhibition, one of the outputs, is scheduled to take place in 2027/28.

An interim online exhibition, Mapping Injury: Colonial Legacies, focuses on the colonial legacies of contemporary injury impacting communities in Colombia, Lebanon, Nigeria, and South Africa.